October 30, 2013 /
Untold Stories
Sharon Schmickle
Women provide more than half the labor on farms in sub-Saharan Africa, but many lack access to land, capital and farm inputs. Empowering them is seen as an urgent economic development priority.
October 29, 2013 /
Untold Stories
Tom Hundley
Barely six months have passed since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, and already it seems the world has forgotten.
October 28, 2013 /
CNN
Jim Wickens
More than 10,000 dolphins are being killed every year in Peruvian waters to be used as shark bait.
October 24, 2013 /
The Nation
Jason Motlagh
Months after the Rana Plaza factory disaster, victims’ families have received little or no compensation.
October 24, 2013 /
Financial Times
Robin Wigglesworth
Opposition campaigns for vote of no-confidence in the finance minister.
October 23, 2013 /
Untold Stories
Linda Qiu
Water's profound importance in Botswana is tied to its natural environment, culture, history, and language.
October 18, 2013 /
Des Moines Register
Josephat Mwanzi, Sharon Schmickle
Zanzibar's female farmers drive food production but suffer a lack of access to modern farming tools.
October 18, 2013 /
Mail Online
Jim Wickens
Fishermen in Peru hunt and butcher dolphins, even though it's illegal. Then they harvest meat from the animals to use as cheap bait for sharks.
October 17, 2013 /
ITV
Jim Wickens
Hunting dolphins is illegal, but that doesn't stop Peru's shark fishermen from slaughtering dolphins to use as bait.
October 17, 2013 /
The Ecologist
Jim Wickens
Undercover filming by the UK investigative team Ecostorm has exposed — for the first time — the brutal hunting and killing of dolphins for use as shark bait off Peru's Pacific coast.